AccuWeather: Gale warnings, watches in effect up and down Eastern Seaboard
Gale warnings, watches in effect up and down Eastern Seaboard
As winds increase across the region during the day on Thursday and into Thursday night, isolated power outages and coastal flooding will become more likely.
AccuWeather Global Weather Center – February 16, 2022 – A powerful storm capable of producing snow and severe weather across the country will also bring howling and potentially damaging winds across the Northeast on Thursday, AccuWeather
High wind watches (gold) and gale warnings (purple) were issued for parts of the Northeast.
“This will be a much different storm across the Northeast compared to what was seen recently,” said AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Dean DeVore. “While the region has seen bouts of cold weather, snow and ice over the past month, southerly winds associated with this storm will bring springlike conditions later this week.”
While southerly winds will become breezy as early as Wednesday afternoon across the region, AccuWeather meteorologists are most concerned about the strongest winds that are set to arrive Thursday night and last into early Friday morning. This is when parts of the region could experience wind gusts up to hurricane-force (74 mph or greater).
“The highest winds gusts will arrive in areas from the Delmarva [Peninsula] to New York City early Thursday night before spreading into coastal southern New England later at night and into the early hours of Friday morning,” DeVore explained.
High wind watches have been issued for parts of Long Island up through eastern Massachusetts, including Boston. Gale warnings are in place for areas from offshore of Nantucket, Massachusetts up through coastal Maine. Gale watches have been issued for coastal waters from New Jersey down through the North Carolina Outer Banks.
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